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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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English (LSJ)

   A twist round, bend, [τὴν φλόγα] Thphr.Ign.53 ; τοὺς ἀγκῶνας LXX 4 Ma.10.6 : but usu. break off, [τὰς δρῦς] Ael.VH9.18 ; τῷ κράνει π. τὸ ξίφος break it round the helmet, Plu.Sull.14 :—Pass., περικεκλασμέναι ῥάβδοι Thphr.HP4.6.10; περικλασθήσονται κλῶνες LXX Wi.4.5 ; κολοσσὸς -κλασθεὶς ἀπὸ τῶν γονάτων Str.14.25 ; περικλώμενα τοῖς αὑτῶν βρίθεσι bent and broken by... Plu.Sull.12 ; περικεκλασμένον σχῆμα bent and bowed down, Id.2.878c ; of persons, τοῖς σώμασι -κλώμενοι Arist.Phgn.813a16, cf. Theoc.21.48 ; but also, arched, θώραξ Gal.18(1).420 ; περικλώμενος κλύδων J.AJ15.9.6.    2 in Optics, refract, Cleom.2.1 (Pass.).    II wheel an army round to the right or left, ἐπὶ δόρυ or ἐπ' ἀσπίδα Plb.11.12.4, cf. 11.23.2 ; also π. τὸν Τίβεριν ἐπὶ τὸ Κίρκαιον divert it, Plu.Caes.58.    2 Pass., of missiles, ricochet, Ph.Bel.79.19.    III τόποι περικεκλασμένοι rough, broken ground, Plb.12.20.6 ; so λόφοι περικεκλ. Id.18.22.9 ; οἰκίαι περικεκλ. houses on such ground, Id.9.26A.7 ; περικεκλασμένας λόφοις ἐρημίας Onos.6.7.